Russian Foreign Minister Just Gloated About the Comey Firing in the U.S. State Department on National TV

This sarcastic piece of trash is mocking us.(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

This looks...suspicious.

Yesterday Donald Trump decided that he was sick of people talking about the Russia investigation, so he fired the man behind the investigation, FBI director James Comey. Which, of course, made everyone stop talking about the investigation. Wait, that's not how the Streisand effect works. No, this made the whole thing look even more suspicious, because, well, COVER-UPS ARE SUSPICIOUS.

Only adding to the suspicious nature of all this is the fact that today both Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Donald Trump himself are meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Nothing like firing the guy who's investigating your ties to Russia and then immediately and publicly hanging out with Russia. And if you think this is brazen, it's got nothing on how emboldened Russia is feeling right now.

Let's take a look at an exchange between the press and Sergey Lavrov this morning at the State Department during a photo-op with Rex Tillerson.

Look at the dismissive way he sarcastically engages with the question. This is what gloating looks like. And why shouldn't he gloat! He's standing in the State Department of an administration that his government not only has immense sway over, but actually helped put into power. And that nation just decided to shitcan one of the few people who were actually looking into that scandal. I'd be feeling cocky, too.

But if you can watch this and not be infuriated, then you've decided that Donald Trump is worth sacrificing American sovereignty over, in which case, I don't even know how to begin to understand you. Make no mistake, the international message here is clear. Russia to the world: We own these people.

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